Hastings Newswire

Grooming equipment sits in front of freshly groomed trails at Afton Alps ski hill in Hastings, Minnesota, in November 2018. An early blast of cold has allowed round-the-clock snow-making and grooming for many downhill ski destinations, allowing a pre-Thanksgiving start to the season.
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A Farmington woman is accused of swindling nearly $80,000 from a Burnsville nonprofit health-care clinic while employed as its finance director - buying Taylor Swift concert tickets, writing checks out to herself and making 330 Amazon purchases and unauthorized ATM withdrawals. Alia Joy Pranke, 44, was charged this week in Dakota County District Court in Hastings with three counts of felony theft by swindle.
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Diane and Roger Peterson of Eagan were killed June 28, 2018, by a hit-and-run driver. Jonna Kojo Armartey was arrested pending charges on two counts of murder in the second degree in the hit and run deaths of Roger and Diane Peterson in Eagan on June 28. He is being held without bail at the Dakota County jail in Hastings.
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The Target store in Hastings is one of a dozen "underperforming" locations throughout the U.S. that will shut down early next year, the Minneapolis-based retailer said Tuesday. The Hastings store at 875 General Sieben Drive just off Minnesota 55 and the others will close Feb. 3. A Fergus Falls location is the only other Minnesota store slated to shut down.
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